“Sunday was actually my anniversary, and some friends of mine who were visiting us went to the State Museum last Sunday. People who work can’t get to the state museum, often, during the weeks, and it’s just another one of those painful remedies to a deficit that we would have to undergo,” Paterson said after thanking volunteers at the Equinox Community Dinner. “Hopefully, if the legislature would like to designate some services they’d like to save, some bills they passed that I vetoed, they could go beyond the $315 million deficit that I would hope to close next week, but what I would say is, there are so many unfortunate and painful affects of a deficit, there may have to be more parks closed. I don’t know what the prognosis for the future is, the sooner we address the situation, the stronger and faster we’ll recover from it.”